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Holyoke Youth Football emphasizes safety and will be part of national sports injury study

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The league teaches the basics of football to youngsters on grades three to eight.

HOLYOKE -- Holyoke Youth Football is playing it safe.

Players will have new helmets. A Springfield College trainer will be on hand. And the league will participate in a sports injury study with the Datalys Center for Sports Injury Research and Prevention, a nonprofit in Indianapolis, Ind. and USA Football, which governs amateur and youth football when the season begins Aug. 31, a press release said.

"I was very excited when I received a call and was asked if our organization would take part in a study to make youth football safer," said league president Mark A. Lubold, who also is a coach.

The league teaches football fundamentals to youths in grades three to eight.


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